“Did you Voice her?” asked Reen.“’Voice’ her?” replied Mander, looking perplexed.“You know. Voice her. Jedi Hoodoo. Mind tricks.” She made a theatrical wave of her hand. “Tell her ‘You want to let us land on the planet’ or something like that. And then she agrees and we go off.”“It doesn’t work quite like that,” said Mander.

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